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• Post #4502905

  Vernon Hill, 'The New Inferno', 1909. #weird #weirdart #sorcery

• Post #4487520

  One of those places that look like they ought to be haunted. I wonder if they intended those figures to be as creepy as they look? Not a place one would want to spend alone at night! #Australia #Melbourne RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:t57rcqk4cylwtjk3ejunu3um/post/3mso6h35t2s24

• Post #4436471

  'The Spookissimus' is here to remind everyone about #SpookySunday, the new feed for posts on all things ghost (replacing #PhantomsFriday, which has been cast into the Outer Darkness). Ghost-related words, art, haunted sites, #folklore, popular culture will all be reposted: @spookysunday.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy

• Post #4277163

  The font in Walsoken Church, #Norfolk, by John Sell Cotman, early 19th Century. #FontsOnFriday #church #churches #medieval

• Post #4277132

  Here's hoping everyone got the memo about #PhantomsFriday having been moved forward to become #SpookySunday (I will repost any contributions posted today on Sunday). Still the same theme - ghosts. Encounters with weird things OK provided not considered cryptids or belonging to fairy-lore. Avanti!

• Post #4143382

  This week's #13MorbidMondays theme is 'Years and Years'. Here is a dead king by Gustave Dore who has been sitting on an equally redundant throne for years and years. #Gothic

• Post #4117437

  Paul Klee, 'Witch With A Comb', 1922. Fab. #witch #Klee #art

• Post #4107980

  King's College Chapel, Cambridge, by David Roberts, early 19th Century. #StainedGlassSunday #Cambridge #Gothic #architecture #medieval

• Post #4073531

  Thank you all for another phantasmagorically fabulous #PhantomsFriday. The feed has now disappeared into the ether and been replaced (easily, which amazed me) as #SpookySunday. I was going to take a break but I'm being confusing enough already - so the hauntings will begin again Sunday August 2.

• Post #4036166

  'Moonlit Landscape' by Jean Delville, 1890. #art #FrenchArt #Symbolism #Symbolist #Gothic

• Post #3890152

  And here's one I prepared earlier... #PhantomsFriday RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:b2hyz7hdcoiglhniwkwykt3f/post/3mpl7vzt5xc2r

• Post #3890099

  A mid-Victorian 'stereoscope' card by one Martin Laroche. The card was used to create a 3D effect when looked at through a viewer. #PhantomsFriday #Victorian #ghost #photography

• Post #3865229

  Caspar David Friederich, 'The Cemetery Gates'. #Gothic #art #Victorian #graveyard

• Post #3788177

  Oops. Should have been #13MorbidMondays RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:b2hyz7hdcoiglhniwkwykt3f/post/3mqjkdsppcs2j

• Post #3744601

  Keep those birds hydrated! Here's a sparrow in my garden taking advantage of the bird bath. #bird #birds #heatwave #photography

• Post #3676526

  Final one for #WyrdWednesday. (A newspaper cartoon by Hans Arnold from - and I can't think why I'm assuming this - the 1970s.) #mermaid

• Post #3580269

  The most important fantasy literature for me growing up were the Target #DoctorWho novelisations, most written with brio by former script editor Terrance Dicks, the others by the writers of the original teleplays. It was a thrill as each came out: you never knew which story it would be! #BookWormSat

• Post #3563127

  A creepy #legend is attached to Jedburgh Abbey, Scottish Borders. At his wedding in 1285, Alexander III was startled by a spirit which suddenly manifested among the congregation. It prophesied his death in the coming year. A few months later he was fatally thrown from his horse. [1/2 #PhantomsFriday

• Post #3562408

  Gustave Dore: 'Shades Of French Soldiers From The Past Exhort Soldiers To Victory On The Rhine'. Drawn in 1875, the subject shows that the 'Angels Of Mons' idea accidentally over-popularised by Arthur Machen during World War 1 had been around for some time. #PhantomsFriday #Machen #ghosts #art

• Post #3495015

  The 'Toad Of Death' from a 19th Century book of magic. #toad #toads #occult #sorcery #magick

• Post #3471047

  A Holly Blue butterfly I photographed on some ling (I think?). #butterfly #butterflies #naturephotography

• Post #3468555

  An illustration by Fanny Railton of an owl with Puck from 'A Midsummer Night's Dream'. #OwlishMonday #owl #fairy

• Post #3444105

  Modern stained glass in the ancient Church of Saints Asaph and Cydeyrn, Llanasa, in North-East Wales. #StainedGlassSunday #Wales

• Post #3429564

  "In the depth of winter I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer." - Albert Camus #BookWormSat #Camus

• Post #3427015

  Cats in a boat by Adam Zagorski, 1924. #cats #Caturday

• Post #2132042

  The Raven's Bowl beside an ancient track in the hills above Llangollen, North Wales. Probably the base of a medieval wayside cross but it's unknown what happened to the cross itself. The hollow socket forms the 'bowl' of its romantic name. #StandingStoneSunday #medieval #antquities #Wales

• Post #2104849

  For #WordlessWednesday and #WindowsOnWednesday #medieval #churches

• Post #1389304

  One of Jan Parker's terrifying illustrations to be found in 'Witchcraft and Black Magic' by Peter Haining (1982). #BookologyThursday #witchcraft #blackmagic #magick

• Post #1315485

  Weird pictures of the day are a couple of vintage Spanish Edgar Rice Burroughs' paperbacks with cover illustrations by Prieto. (Not books I own, btw). #weird #weirdart #artsky #fantasyfiction #BookChatWeekly #booksky #VintagePaperbacks #EdgarRiceBurroughs